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Exeter City manager Matt Taylor was naturally delighted to see his side turn in a superb second half performance to come from behind and beat Cheltenham Town 3-1 at St James Park on Saturday.

After trailing to Ryan Brush's goal, just before half-time, the Grecians turned in a vastly improved display after the break to turn a 1-0 deficitinto a 3-1 win courtesy of a stunning Pierce Sweeney volley, Jayden Stockley finishing off a fine move and Jonathan Forte's perseverance late in the day.

But what did the manager say to his players to instigate such a vast turnaround in fortune? Here is everything he said after the game...

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My one disappointment about today was going in at half-time 1-0 down. When you are having a tough time, you have to dig in and dig in and dig in a little bit more to come in at half-time at 0-0. That’s my only criticism about today.

We gave them a bit of a focus second half, we connected them a bit all over the pitch and we got the reward off the back of that. We got on the front foot, we played higher up the pitch and we got our attacking players on the ball in dangerous areas and – I keep saying it week in, week out - we have the quality there to hurt the opposition.

You were certainly helped right at the start of the second half with that fabulous strike by Pierce Sweeney.

Yeah, and he’s got that quality in him. He’s a defender, he’s a full-back, but he scores goals. He did it last year.

I don’t want him to be our second-top goalscorer this season, but if he is, then I will take it because it will be a good tally.

If he gets higher, then he has great delivery and he’s got good feet. That was a serious finish, it really was. That was a finish relevant to a higher level than League Two, it was a real bit of quality.

Straight after half-time, that’s the perfect time to score in terms of us. It just lifted everyone and all of a sudden, we were on the front foot and chasing the game.

I keep coming back to the first half and it won’t always be straight forward and as much as they are good players, everyone has to stick with them and lead the fans and everyone around the ground has to be cool and calm in terms of their mind, as we were at half-time.

You had that fluidity in the midfield area, but how important is that Hiram Boateng/Nicky Law combination with the number of goals they have set up already this season? It’s incredible.

They are good, quality players and they will create if they get on the ball high up the pitch. But in order to do that, you have to do the so-called dirty side of football.

We probably didn’t do that well enough in the first half, you have to tackle, you have to head, you have to kick. You have to do all the basics right to give yourselves a foothold in the game and get the ball higher up the pitch. It’s as simple as that.

We might have been half a yard off it in all areas in the first half, but second half, that was a proper performance.

We keep talking about these players’ invention. If we get them on the ball in good areas of the pitch, then we have the quality to break down the opposition.

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Pre-season, you did say you were after attacking, entertaining football here at St James Park and in bringing on Jonathan Forte, you still had that intention of getting more goals and the striker scored again.

Yeah. He was scoring before he got injured a few weeks back and we missed him. We had to change our shape slightly and we missed him, but he is a physical presence at the top end of the pitch.

People think he is just a sprinter, but he’s not, he heads it and puts himself about and he did it for the goal, he blocked the clearance and ran through and that was a good finish as well.

We need him in goalscoring form and we need all our players fit and firing and raring to go. Jonno is a good personality around the place and that’s another reason why I signed him, I knew what he’d bring to the group.

We will learn a lot from today and we will assess the group on Monday because we have another tough game on Tuesday against West Ham.

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Finally Matt, is there an update on Troy Brown and the severity of his injury?

It was a serious operation. I don’t have the medical capacity to talk at length about the operation, but it was something that needed doing and when the surgeon opened up his knee, it was clear what needed doing.

I’d like to think he will play a part this season, but it is going to be well after Christmas before we see him playing again.